Red Room: A True Crime Podcast

Cults are not always whacky organised communities that live in a commune... in fact, many modern-day cults exist right under our noses. New-age spiritual gurus have gentrified many of the legitimate practices of the East, like meditation and yoga, and used them to gain the trust of vulnerable individuals. Dennis Curran and Shashi Dubey were two of these gurus, who started Japa Meditation Ireland, and used it to abuse its members, financially, mentally and sexually.

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Turns out there was not just one, but two cults that lived in that big 8-bedroom house in Donegal. In 1982, the house changed hands to a group called The Silver Sisterhood, but the people of Burtonport would not know any peace. While this group were quieter on paper, what they got up to within the house was another world of strange, we're talking Victorian era roleplay, caning and eh... video game development?

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On the North West Coast of Ireland is a small fishing village called Burtonport. On the surface, it is similar to many of Ireland's more rural villages however scratch the surface and you will hear stories of the cults that called it home for 20 years.

Between 1974 and 1992, two cults chose Burtonport as their home, and brought controversy, news reporters and unrest to the otherwise sleepy village.

Today we will look at The Atlantis Commune, otherwise known as "The Screamers"; a group that came from the UK to Donegal to practice primal scream therapy, led by Jenny James.

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This is an excerpt from the latest Patreon episode where we pick apart the QAnon Conspiracy Theory, and ask how so many people have fallen victim to this way of thinking.

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Amy Fitzpatrick was just 15 years old when she vanished without a trace on New Year's Day 2008 in Mijas, Spain. Amy was last seen walking home from a friend's house, but she never made it back. Years later, her brother would also be killed, and her step-father would be convicted of his manslaughter.

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Celine Cawley knew what she wanted from life. She began modelling as a teen, and by her early 20s she had landed a bit part in a 007 movie with Rodger Moore. However, she was not just a pretty face. In 1990 she founded a hugely successful production company and by the 2000s she was settled in a beautiful home in Howeth, with her beloved daughter and her husband of 17 years, Eamonn Lillis.

Celine Cawley was killed in her home on December 15th 2008, her husband claimed it was a failed burglary, but the investigation that followed would point Gardaí much closer to home.

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On January 3rd, 1993, Imelda Keenan would leave her small apartment to collect her social welfare. The walk was a short one, only 7 minutes according to Google Maps. Before she left she made her fiance, Mark, a cup of tea. She put her makeup on and headed out the door, she would never return.

Imelda's Family are certain that their beloved little sister was abducted and murdered, however, her case has never been investigated as one.

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If the rumours about Countess Elizabeth Bathóry are true, she would be one of history's most violent serial killers. Known as The Blood Countess, living high in her castle in Transylvania, Elizabeth Bathóry tortured and killed over 650 girls and women in 20 years. She would bathe in their blood as an anti-ageing practice and engage in blood magick and ritual with her cohort of witches and warlocks.

However, she was arrested, put on a show trial, and imprisoned in her castle until her death by a man whose number one goal it was to destroy her noble family. This leads many to believe she was not the murderous masochist history makes her out to be, but a victim of a political conspiracy.

This week, we're decoding The Blood Countess's story.

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25-year-old Honour Bright was found shot and killed in Ticknock in June 1925. Despite multiple eyewitnesses placing her in a car with a Doctor and a Garda Superintendent, the two men who would be charged and tried for her murder were acquitted by a Dublin jury in 1926.

Honour was a single mother, and likely turned to sex work to support herself and pay for her son's foster care. After the trial, the media used her story as a way to scare young women who were prone to becoming "wayward", rather than focusing on the fact that her killer roamed free.

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